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SAGINAW TWP. – A major accident in Saginaw Township on the afternoon of Monday, Aug. 26 sent three victims to the hospital and shut down a portion of Gratiot Road for nearly two hours. Saginaw Township Police and members of the Saginaw Township Fire Department responded to the incident at Gratiot and St. Andrews roads, at 2:26 p.m. Police said a 1996 Ford Ranger pickup truck...

Police are investigating a case of vandalism in which a man and woman who recently moved to Gloucester have had their car covered several times with "Caution" tape while it was parked on Centennial Avenue. According to Officer Richard Tucker's report, the man told police at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday that he had found the caution tape over the car, with a note attached. The report...

Lying under a table in the dark of the crashed train, I was initially mistaken for a dummy – and a firefighter almost stepped on me. It had seemed an appropriate way to spend Friday the 13th – as the first journalist to play a casualty in a major transport exercise at the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service's (SFRS) national training centre. The units are essentially fire engines...

The city's finance committee was in the early stages of planning the 2020 budget when an arbitrator issued a decision that will force the city to find room for 12 new employees in its approximately $23 million budget. Arbitrator Michael S. Lewandowski found the city violated its contract with the Lockport Professional Fire Fighters Association in 2014 when it reduced the fire...

An arbitrator has determined the Lockport Fire Department's six man shifts are unsafe and is requiring the City of Lockport to restore minimum staffing levels of nine firefighters. In 2014, former Mayor Anne McCaffrey had dropped the fire department's ambulance service amid the city's financial distress and cut the department's minimum staffing levels from nine to six members...

ATTLEBORO -- A woman was pulled from a burning vehicle early Saturday morning and rushed to Rhode Island Hospital with critical injuries, but is expected to survive due to the life-saving actions of firefighters. Deputy Chief Dennis Perkins credited the quick-thinking of firefighters who responded to the call for helping to save the woman's life following the 2:30 a.m. crash at...